Sophisticated Variations Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg  Techno I (1999)   Perfectgeometry and ornamental stylization demonstrates the polarity in Siri Berg’sshow at Konstn�rshuset in Stockholm. She presents an ample perspective of herwork, ranging from radical minimalist paintings dating back to the 70’s tonewer and more commingled works on Japanese paper and canvas – ranging fromcollages, polychromes, monochromes, and […]

Adventures in the Present / Out of Brazil Carlos Sansolo  Erika Fraenkel, F�rias For�adas   We began by holding screenings at a few art galleries, media art centersand museums in Brazil; after the first event, we thought it would be importantto have international videos to establish a dialogue with our own nationalproduction.   Our situationhere in […]

Playing with Shonibare Anthony Downey Maxa, Yinka Shonibare, 2003, Emulsion, acrylic on textile   Notoften does a painting leave a grin on your face, and it is even more uncommonto find that grin still there after you have left the gallery. YinkaShonibare’s paintings, however, do exactly that – and, crucially, somethingelse too. An entire wall […]

Bill Rabinovitch and Jackson Pollock Squared Tarvis Watson image of him as fighter pilot   If youever find yourself having coffee with Bill Rabinovitch, be sure to ask himabout his days flying fighter jets. It’ll take him a moment to conjure hisprevious incarnation and he’ll probably iterate that he never did any fighting,having left the […]

Divining Fragments: Reconciling the Body K�an-Jeff Baysa  Patrick Martinez, Untitled, 2002, video installation, with assistance from the National Library of Medicine. Thehuman body is a slippery surface upon which discourses of race, class, gender,and sexuality are mediated, and thus it is a contested scientific, political,ethical, cultural, economic, and social site. Since human subjectivity andidentity are […]

The Ins and Outs of Beatriz Milhazes Elba Benitez O Conflito, 2001 (Acrylic on canvas, 150,5 x 35,5 cm)   TheBrazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes’ work is characterized by the Baroquecolorist quality of her canvases. At first sight, they seem to state asunequivocal their condition as paintings of organic forms: images of abstractedflowers, branches, leaves, intuited […]

MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ: DELIMITED OCCCURENCES Horace Brockington    In theearly 1970s Marc Chaimowicz was interested in ideas of art, which could challengedartists to move beyond the Duchampian readymade that had challenged the conceptof the art object. During the period, Chaimowicz wrote about performance artfor Studio International, in addition to actively participating in the origins of […]

Chrissy Conant’s Edible Metaphors Danielle Cannon   “It is notin life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”style="mso-spacerun: yes">  This quote, taken from George E.Woodberry, resonates with truth that one encounters  in Chrissy Caviar, an installation formerly at The Aldrich Museum ofContemporary Art, now made accessible throughhref="http://www.chrissycaviar.com/">www.chrissycaviar.com.style="mso-spacerun: yes">  Under the “General Information” sectionon […]

NEO ‘80s Peter De Potter Don’t believe the headlines in nowadaysglossy fashion magazines or the recent slogans from the record company’spr-machines: the eighties are NOT back and no, we will NOT be dragged ‘back toeighties’. That decade is over, it all happened 20 odd years ago and we stillhaven’t mastered the art of actually travelling […]

ABSTRACTION NOW Andr�s Ram�rez Gavirias Curated byNorbert Pfaffenbichler and co-curators Sandro Droschl, Sixpackfilm and Lia andMiguel Carvalhais, ABSTRACTION NOW brings together current non-representationaltrends in art centered mostly on audiovisual media. The exhibition, excellentlyorganized by its curators, covers the work of a group of young artists whodisplay ingenious approaches to abstract themes, as seen not only […]